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Cartier-Bresson said that a photographer must be a hidden observer. I put myself in my pictures. That’s how little I am hidden.
—Jean Pigozzi

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Jean Pigozzi.

Photographer, collector, philanthropist and businessman, Pigozzi has spent much of the past four decades compiling a frank and lively photographic catalogue of the international glitterati with which he surrounds himself. Instead of writing a diary, he has kept a visual journal of his friends and social calendar, producing a brand of high-society portraiture that conveys his preference for celebrating life in the limelight, embracing the company of the rich and famous rather than stalking celebrities with a telephoto lens to reveal their secrets. The well-known series Pigozzi & Co. that he began in the 1970s turned the typical conception of the paparazzo on its head by inserting the photographer among his famous subjects, such as Gianni Agnelli, Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson, and Diane von Furstenberg. In recent years, his attention has shifted to portraiture, casual, low-key moments, and travel photographs.

At once insider and outsider, Pigozzi provides extended access to a world that is usually hidden from sight. His small Leica camera goes everywhere with him as an extension and defining element of his identity. In a photograph with Carla Bruni (1991), he poses for his own camera while Bruni gazes out to the side of the frame, flirtatiously engaged with an unseen subject. Diane and Jean Pigozzi, Geneva Switzerland (1991) reveals an endearing sense of play, as he snaps the cartoon-like face of his dog appearing between his legs, nuzzling his crotch; while his portrait of Bill Gates before the jaws of Damien Hirst’s notorious shark (2007) is at once humorous and iconic.

The Art of the Olympics: An Interview with Yasmin Meichtry

The Art of the Olympics: An Interview with Yasmin Meichtry

The Olympic and Paralympic Games arrive in Paris on July 26. Ahead of this momentous occasion, Yasmin Meichtry, associate director at the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage, Lausanne, Switzerland, meets with Gagosian senior director Serena Cattaneo Adorno to discuss the Olympic Games’ long engagement with artists and culture, including the Olympic Museum, commissions, and the collaborative two-part exhibition, The Art of the Olympics, being staged this summer at Gagosian, Paris.

Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2024

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2024

The Summer 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail of Roy Lichtenstein’s Bauhaus Stairway Mural (1989) on the cover.

Brooke Holmes, Katarina Jerinic, and Lissa McClure on Francesca Woodman

In Conversation
Brooke Holmes, Katarina Jerinic, and Lissa McClure on Francesca Woodman

Join Brooke Holmes, professor of Classics at Princeton University, and Lissa McClure and Katarina Jerinic, executive director and collections curator, respectively, at the Woodman Family Foundation, as they discuss Francesca Woodman’s preoccupation with classical themes and archetypes, her exploration of the body as sculpture, and her engagement with allegory and metaphor in photography.

David Cronenberg: The Shrouds

David Cronenberg: The Shrouds

David Cronenberg’s film The Shrouds made its debut at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in France. Film writer Miriam Bale reports on the motifs and questions that make up this latest addition to the auteur’s singular body of work.

Christo: Wrapped 1961 Volkswagen Beetle Saloon (1963–2014)

Christo: Wrapped 1961 Volkswagen Beetle Saloon (1963–2014)

Join Vladimir Yavachev, director of operations for the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, as he discusses the genesis of the artist’s work Wrapped 1961 Volkswagen Beetle Saloon (1963–2014), which Gagosian presented at Art Basel Unlimited 2024.

Oscar Murillo and Alessandro Rabottini

In Conversation
Oscar Murillo and Alessandro Rabottini

In conjunction with Marks and Whispers, at Gagosian, Rome, Oscar Murillo and Alessandro Rabottini sit down to discuss the artist’s paintings and works on paper in the exhibition, as well as how the show emphasizes the formal, political, and social dimensions of the color red in Murillo’s work of the last decade.

BRONX BODEGA Basel

BRONX BODEGA Basel

On the occasion of Art Basel 2024, creative agency Villa Nomad joins forces with Ghetto Gastro, the Bronx-born culinary collective by Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker, to stage the interdisciplinary pop-up BRONX BODEGA Basel. The initiative brings together food, art, design, and a series of live events at the Novartis Campus, Basel, during the course of the fair. Here, Jon Gray from Ghetto Gastro and Sarah Quan from Villa Nomad tell the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier about the project.

Donald Judd: Untitled: 1970

Donald Judd: Untitled: 1970

In this video, Flavin Judd, the artist’s son and artistic director of Judd Foundation, discusses a historic large-scale work by his father from 1970, ahead of its presentation at Art Basel Unlimited 2024.

A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE: An interview with Yoshiyuki Miyamae

A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE: An interview with Yoshiyuki Miyamae

Founded in 1998 by Issey Miyake, A-POC (“A Piece of Cloth”) set out to bring the development and production of fabric and garments into the future. Over the subsequent decades, A-POC has worked at the forefront of technology to realize its goals, and under the leadership of Yoshiyuki Miyamae—who has been with Miyake Design Studio since 2001—A-POC ABLE has engaged in a dynamic series of collaborations with artists, architects, craftspeople, and new technologies to rethink how clothing is designed and made. On the occasion of the line being made available in the United States for the first time, the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier visited the brand’s flagship in New York to speak with Yoshiyuki about the A-POC process, as well as the latest collaboration with the artist Sohei Nishino.

Jordan Wolfson and Johanna Burton

In Conversation
Jordan Wolfson and Johanna Burton

In this video, Gagosian presents a conversation between Jordan Wolfson and Johanna Burton, Maurice Marciano Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The pair discuss Wolfson’s animatronic work of art Body Sculpture (2023).

Jane Fonda: On Art for a Safe and Healthy California

Jane Fonda: On Art for a Safe and Healthy California

Art for a Safe and Healthy California is a benefit exhibition and auction jointly presented by Jane Fonda, Gagosian, and Christie’s to support the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California. Here, Fonda speaks with Gagosian Quarterly’s Gillian Jakab about bridging culture and activism, the stakes and goals of the campaign, and the artworks featured in the exhibition.

Laguna~B

Laguna~B

An interview with Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda, artist, designer, and CEO and art director of the Venice-based glassware company Laguna~B.

Cover of the Summer 2021 issue of Gagosian Quarterly magazine, featuring artwork by Carrie Mae Weems

Gagosian Quarterly: Summer 2021 Issue

$20
Jean Pigozzi × £UV: Saint Barthélemy t-shirt

Jean Pigozzi × £UV: Saint Barthélemy T-shirt

$50
Leica CL “URBAN JUNGLE by JEAN PIGOZZI” Camera with neck strap

Leica CL “URBAN JUNGLE by JEAN PIGOZZI” Camera

$3,950
Jean Pigozzi × £UV: Charles Ray Sculpture t-shirt

Jean Pigozzi × £UV: Charles Ray Sculpture T-shirt

$50
Cover of the book Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men

Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men in My Life

$90